principles by which they stand distinguished from the unreformed devotions of both the East and the West. The treatise here presented to public notice differs from others of similar dimensions issued of late years from the press and intended for popular use, schools, and teachers. It aims more distinctively to assist those who are preparing for Holy Orders, and have to face the ordeal of examinations. In no other work of the same compass, we believe, have references been furnished in so much detail to encourage and satisfy the student's inquiries among works both old and new, great and small. Foremost among these are the great Dictionaries of Christian Biography and Antiquities that have been issued from Mr. Murray's press under the care of Dr. William Smith, Dr. Wace, and Archdeacon Cheetham. The Examination Questions for practice, which form another special feature of the present work, call for a remark. Although most of them are original, many are borrowed or adapted from actual examinations. The bulk of them can be answered from the volume itself, or from the text of the Prayer Book; but some must be taken to other works, to which references are given, since it was impossible for a volume so confined as those of the Theological Manual series in size and price to deal with all the details into which the student's inquiries and the demands of examiners must needs branch out. It has been, however, the great study of the author to occupy the space allowed to him with the most useful points, and to place these before his readers in a form which may conduce as much as possible to the success of their studies. The Glossary, a useful department for miscellaneous explanatory matter, makes no pretension to exhaustiveness, nor even to fulness, in the number of its articles, which are, in fact, but a small selection, the author having deemed it best to occupy a large moiety of his available room in treating a few of them somewhat closely. KING'S COLLEGE, London, June 30th, 1887. |